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- From: Daniel@bepcp.UUCP
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
- Subject: GUS - 32 channel STEREO!
- Message-ID: <gate.uVuyVB1w164w@bowker.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 02:05:29 EST
- Lines: 31
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- Re: Re: Sbos!=SBPRO
- By: cwatters #0 @magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Coyt D Watters) USEnet
-
- > Are the voices truly "pannable", or is it a matter of "right or left?"
- > In the former, the single voice's "spatial location" could be "moved" to give
- > the impression that the sound source has moved. If the single voice could be
- > assigned in this manner, then the card should be considered 32 voice stereo.
- > In the latter, the voice can only be assigned to one of the two channels
- > exclusively. On an exclusive card, a pair of voices could be used to create
- > a real panning effect, by clever use of the volume of the voices to give the
- > impression that the sound source has been moving spatially. This method
- > would yield 16 voice stereo maximum.
- > The latter seems more likely - it is a simple matter of 4 bytes of informatio
- > total to assign all the voices. 1=left 0=right or something similar. Thus
- > you could assign all 32 voices to the left or right channel - rather than
- > having an inflexible 16 left - 16 right arrangement.
- > But, this being Advanced Gravis, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the
- > board actually can do real panning of all 32 voices. This could be done
-
- Here is a quote from the Ultrasound Developer's Toolkit: "There are 15 pan
- positions for each voice." There you have it. Fully panable. Star Control II
- uses this panning; 1 music channel is mixed far left, 1 is mixed "mid left",
- 1 is mixed "mid right" and the last is mixed far right.
- - Dan Nicholson, PCkS Associates
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